Robots star in Swiss play about a nerd

We're not the biggest theatre-goers around here (though we've been known to take in the odd Phantom of the Opera performance), but this is one play we would jump at the chance to see. Called -- quite fittingly -- Robots, the musical stars three autonomous robots developed by Bluebotics, a company which specializes in service bots. The story revolves around a lonely human man who lives in isolation with just his robots, and what happens when a woman threatens to visit him in the not too distant future. Yeah, like we haven't heard this one a million times. The play opens on May 1st at the Barnabe Theatre in Servion, Switzerland, and will run until May 17th.

[kumquat @ Apr 23rd 2009 11:49AM]

Anyone remember Claude's "In The Future, There Will Be Robots" from Vice City?

The future is now.

[Jon Acheson @ Apr 23rd 2009 12:14PM]

You beat me to it.

"Is this Switzerland today, or Burning Man 10 years ago?"

[EI8HT @ Apr 23rd 2009 12:21PM]

a play about robots and nerds...written by freakin' nerds

[EI8HT @ Apr 23rd 2009 12:24PM]

i should have said written, directed and acted out by freakin' nerds

[George @ Apr 23rd 2009 11:49AM]

Um - swap red dress onto that robot...Parasite Eve?!?

(Sorry - I've been playing PE1 for the past week :D)

[Joshua Topolsky @ Apr 23rd 2009 11:50AM]

Best headline ever.

[Xenoterranos @ Apr 23rd 2009 11:52AM]

The audience looks absolutely enthralled.

[Teej @ Apr 23rd 2009 1:15PM]

I'd assume this photo was taken during a rehearsal...since this show opens May 1st.

[Xenoterranos @ Apr 23rd 2009 1:55PM]

Regardless, that guy does not look happy to be there. Maybe he's playing the part of the jilted electrical engineer, and has to watch as both his ex and her manufactured replacement go full-on-les all over the stage, and he's left out in the cold. Glowering.

Poor guy.

[justsilhouettes @ Apr 23rd 2009 2:14PM]

whatever you say, mr. belvedere.

[Ryan Karolak @ Apr 23rd 2009 2:49PM]

As someone who has worked in a theatre, you typically have to go to ALL rehearsals, and that that could be from 50 to a few hundred depending on the musical and who's performing it. He's probably tired from watching it the 123rd time. Anyone would be, no matter what it is.

[thyomorb @ Apr 23rd 2009 11:56AM]

Unless it's a Sam Shepard play about teeth and crime, every play is about, for and made by nerds.

[thyomorb @ Apr 23rd 2009 11:55AM]

Unless it's a Sam Shepard play about teeth and crime, every play is about, for and made by nerds.

[aggrazel @ Apr 23rd 2009 12:08PM]

Next Sunday, AD?

[RattyUK @ Apr 23rd 2009 12:38PM]

"We're not the biggest theatre-goers around here (though we've been known to take in the odd Phantom of the Opera performance)"

Those two things kind of go together.

[Laura June @ Apr 23rd 2009 12:41PM]

Well, we only go to see Phantom when it stars robots.

[Parker @ Apr 23rd 2009 12:45PM]

looking pretty similar to Flower Robotics' Tatsuya Matsui's pallette design!
don't you think? http://tinyurl.com/cuuqp8

[TomTom2007 @ Apr 23rd 2009 12:52PM]

MAN: Touch it.
WOMAN: No, I'm afraid...
MAN: Shhhh... it's okay....

[Rocketboy @ Apr 23rd 2009 1:14PM]

Wait until the Jocks hear about this. They just won't leave the nerds alone.

[Andrew @ Apr 23rd 2009 2:01PM]

Holy Smokes, I was in a Children's theater production with Branch. He's an American that's been living in Switzerland for years. He's a very talented Mime as well.

[fred @ Apr 23rd 2009 3:02PM]

all top links on this use the same pic.

odd

[HektikLyfe @ Apr 23rd 2009 6:41PM]

Is it about a nerd that went to a play about a robot?

[Skaetzjnar @ Apr 24th 2009 1:27AM]

world is coming to an end.

[GB @ Apr 24th 2009 3:07AM]

Ha, I live in Switzerland and I'm totally gonna watch this! ... Ok, probably not, but maybe it'll happen.. you never know.

[thomas @ Apr 24th 2009 8:32AM]

I remember hearing about this. MIT is supposedly the ones putting together all the robotics for the play.